“Yeah, he’s already got some offers from colleges,” James told CBS Detroit before the Cleveland Cavaliers’ matchup against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday. “It’s pretty crazy. It should be a violation. You shouldn’t be recruiting 10-year-old kids.”

His son is not alone.

Connecticut star Ryan Boatright committed to USC before he was in high school. Marquette’s Matt Carlino reportedly received an offer from Arizona while he was in elementary school. Michael Avery accepted a scholarship offer from former Kentucky coach Billy Gillispie in 2008, when he was an eighth-grader.

Per the NCAA handbook: “A prospective student-athlete is a student who has started classes for…